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Marseille vastly overclaimed; its very difficult to know what is real about his skills.Hans Joachim Marseille is generally said to have been the Luftwaffe's top shot in deflection shooting. But there are some, among them Heinz Bär,
who have been saying that Günther Rall was.
What do you think?
Marseille vastly overclaimed; its very difficult to know what is real about his skills.
When Chuck Yeager was in his later years as a pilot, he challenged anyone to fight him in the F-20 when Northrop was trying to sell it. No takers.
Probably political, but nobody was allowed to do it. Chances of finding a modern fighter jet OUT of the military were slight to nil, so I'm assuming Lockheed interceded and got it killed or the DOD said no. Maybe not.
The F-20 was a great aircraft. I think the "Fighter Mafia" along with some politics killed the program. What was really sad was Northrop wanted to sell the F-20 abroad and wasn't allowed to do so.
Will the Textron AirLand Scorpion befall the same fate?
Textron unveils low-cost Scorpion fighter jet - Textron AirLand
The F-20 is mentioned in the Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textron_AirLand_Scorpion
Politics killing a good fighter? AHEM!...Avro Arrow...ahem.
sorry, something in my throat
You should worry! We cancelled the TSR-2!
Cheers
Steve
The F-20 was an excellent performance match to F-16 in air to air role but fell far short with respect to FB/CAS role with respect to total external payload and combat range with any matching payload or matching range without external stores..